Physics of the Future

"Is it time to push the "up" button on the space elevator?" This article is from www.space.com. This website is reliable and is used by many people who want to stay up to date on what is going on in the world of space. I think that we could very well use this resource to make predictions with. This website does very well in creating an idea of how space travel will fit into everyday life in 2100.This website does show how space will be the new Florida. I say that because everyone vacations in Florida. I really like this website and how it can make us do very well in prediction making.

"It is a real possibility -- a "space elevator" -- that researchers are considering today as a far-out space transportation system for the next century." Spacec travel is becoming a more realistic idea. This form of transportation may become widespread in the near future.

"Yes, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard NASA's Millennium-Two Space Elevator. Your first stop will be the Lunar-level platform before we continue on to the New Frontier Space Colony development. The entire ride will take about 5 hours, so sit back and enjoy the trip. As we rise, be sure to watch outside the window as the curvature of the Earth becomes visible and the sky changes from deep blue to black, truly one of the most breathtaking views you will ever see!" The concept of an elevator, designed to take one beyond the atmosphere of the Earth and into space, has been tossed around a while. The elevator, which is predicted to be 35,786 km in height, may be able to become a reality.

"The space elevator may be the answer." This is a quote from this article. This article is from the NASA website. It is reliable because it is from a very reliable company, NASA. This article is explaining what a space elevator is, how it works, and and what it's place will be in 2100, or sometime in the future. We can definitely use this information for making predictions about space travel in our project. I like this source because it was not just a website talking about small details in space elevator construction. This website was very detailed in explaining the science of space elevators. This shows how space elevators will become popular and normal by 2100.

This article was created by four professors and students from different universities. This goes into international education and their economies. The authors use data, graphs, and maps to explain the correlation between a country's education and its economy.

This is similar to the Corning inc. A Day Of Glass. This version however I feel is a little more descriptive and seems to blend into more of the adult workday and daily routine instead of going though the girls day at school in the Corning video. I especially think that we could focus on her car and all of the features it had including the windows. This also reminded me of Michio Kaku's sub-topic in the computing chapter about driver less cars.

This video is a good oversight of wearable technology and it covers many points within the topic such as; water proof gear, wrist worn tech, and bulky vs sleek. This would be a great video to start out our research with because of the possibilities it lays out for us.

An article created by Stephen Aguilar-Millan. Stephen Aguilar-Millan is a director of research at The European Futures Observatory. He created this to explain what our currency might be like in the future and who might be issuing it. The author has many accolades that make him a credible person to receive information from.

I feel that this article gives good insight into ubiquitous computing which would go along well with our topic on wearable technology. Ubiquitous computing for those of you who do not know is basicly that in the future that everything will be computerized and we will be surrounded by computers everywhere in our everyday life.

"In the future rush to get to work, the day's tasks will be checked using a personal robotic butler, the misplaced car keys will be located by entering the word "keys" into a cellphone and getting a call back saying "bedroom." I find this site useful because it gives another insight on what future computers will be like. It gives great examples of what the technology will be like. For example; our phone will be able to command the dishwasher and the laundry machine while we do other activities. This site is reliable because the concept of this site correlates with many other sources about the future of the computer.

This site provides a huge depth of information on what robots and AI will do to jobs and the economy in the future.

The person who wrote this page is also the head writer of the website and recently wrote a book about technology in the future.

This site makes some very nice points about how mass customization will affect consumers in the future. It also included several references to where they got their information from, so I am sure this is a very reliable source to use.

This website gives some pretty cool examples on what we can do with nanotechnology, like combining certain types of atoms together to make completely different items. I know that this is a reliable source because at the bottom of the page there is a section for cites the doctor who wrote the page used, frequently asked questions, and links to books.

If you have not already, I recommend attempting to intelligently interact with an artificial intelligence such as this. It helps understand where we are so far in making a computer as intelligent as we are (which is not very impressive, in my opinion).

"What happens when machines become smarter than humans? Humans steer the future not because we're the strongest or the fastest but because we're the smartest. When machines become smarter than humans, we'll be handing them the steering wheel. What promises-and perils-will these powerful machines present?" I found this source when looking for information on the "technological singularity" predicted to come by many of Kaku's interviewees. It is difficult to find legitimate sources on this topic, but I think this one is going to be helpful. The link is not to any of their specific articles, but there are many to be explored. I recommend at least skimming some of these articles, as they will give us a more specific idea of how such a singularity would happen.

"Rather than being programmed to anticipate every possible answer or action needed to perform a function or set of tasks, cognitive computing systems are trained using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms to sense, predict, infer and, in some ways, think." This source provides a method for the bottom-up approach to AI, which is letting the computer learn like an infant instead of teaching it how to respond to certain cases. Cognitive computing will most likely be mentioned in our project when we talk about the technological singularity. This article is trustworthy because it is written by IBM, one of the world innovators in technology and computing.

"No, scientists have found no clear indications of life, past or present, beyond the Earth. There have been several tantalizing suggestions - that the Viking mission might have detected evidence of microbial life on Mars or that there are fossil microbes in some Mars rocks or meteorites - but none of these claims has been verified." Although this link is simply the Frequently Asked Questions of the SETI Institute, I have found this extremely helpful because many questions that I had were answered (hence the "Frequently Asked Questions"). These questions are about life that we have found past the Earth, why people insist that "life is out there", and even how scientists at this institute are examining global warming to find the effects. As this article is on the website of the SETI Institute, which consists of some of the best scientists in the world, I think that it is safe to assume that this is a valid source. Citations: "SETI Institute." SETI Institute. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2014.

"How can we apply our growing understanding of the biology of cancer to combat the disease? Prevention is always better than cure, and as we have already discussed in the first part of this chapter, many cancers can indeed be prevented-" This website is about the possible ways we might be able to cure cancer in the future. First it describes how cancer works and why it is so hard to cure. Then there is a list of multiple different predictions about how all the forms of cancer may be cured in the future. We can use this website for the "Coexisting with Cancer" theme, it can help us brainstorm our own ideas on how cancer may be cured. I know this source is reliable because all of the information is cited very clearly for the reader.

"3D Printing Aims to Deliver Organs on Demand" 3D Organ Printing

Ears, bones and other body parts have been spit out of 3D printers in the lab. Here's a look at what organs can be created with 3D printing and are ready for prime time.

"Such a futuristic dream remains far from reality, but university labs and private companies have already taken the first careful steps by using 3D-printing technology to build tiny chunks of organs." This website provides information on how far we currently are in the process of construction new organs from 3D printers. It talks about what bodily materials have already been made by the printers and how they were made. For example the pieces of skin that have already been successfully used on patients. Then it tells you about who came up with this discovery and when. We can use this source as a reference on how far we have come with 3D printing. It is reliable because it is on an official science website and all of the information is cited throughout the article.

Nanotechnology in agriculture is a big deal, especially for us Midwest citizens. This page talks about raising crop production and treating plant-related diseases.

This page talks about the many applications for nanotechnology in the near future and what they can do, from keeping food from spoiling to diagnosing disease.

This was an unexpected topic but it is actually very interesting! It talks about how the flavor of food to the way it is packaged will be impacted.